Vehicle Warning Apparatus Personalized Driver Support

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional vehicle warning systems only inform drivers of unsafe operations without providing tailored support based on their driving habits, leading to ineffective safety improvements.

Innovation Solution

A warning apparatus that acquires traffic and travel information, stores this data in association with driving operation information, and determines warning contents by predicting the driver's response based on similar past data, providing personalized driving support.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If conventional warning systems provide generic unsafe operation notifications, then the system complexity remains low, but the adaptability to individual drivers is insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadaptability to individual driversVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by collecting and storing driving operation information, traffic information, and travel information during normal driving conditions. This data is stored in advance in the storage unit, allowing the warning content determination unit to retrieve and analyze relevant historical data when generating personalized warnings, thereby achieving adaptability without requiring complex real-time processing

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system creates copies of driving patterns by storing operation information associated with traffic and travel conditions. These copied driving patterns are retrieved and analyzed to predict driver responses and generate tailored warnings, enabling personalization through data replication rather than complex real-time analysis

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

2Reliability

If the system stores and analyzes multiple types of associated information, then the quality of driving support improves, but the information processing complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvequality of driving supportVSAvoidinformation processing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The information processing is segmented into distinct functional units: the traffic information acquisition unit handles traffic data, the travel information acquisition unit handles vehicle condition data, the operation information acquisition unit handles driver operation data, and the warning content determination unit synthesizes this information. This segmentation allows complex multi-source information to be processed systematically without overwhelming the system

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The storage unit acts as an intermediary that collects, stores, and organizes traffic information, travel information, and operation information in association with each other. This intermediary storage layer simplifies the processing burden on the warning content determination unit, which only needs to retrieve and analyze pre-organized data rather than processing raw information from multiple sources simultaneously

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS7796020B2Warning apparatus for use in vehicle
Publication Date: 2010.09.14 DENSO CORP
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AI summary

A warning apparatus acquires traffic light information from outside of a vehicle through a traffic information acquisition unit, and travel information regarding a travel condition of the vehicle through a travel information acquisition unit. Then, the warning apparatus determines whether an intersection is safely passable based on the traffic light information and the travel information. When the intersection is not safely passable, the warning apparatus searches similar traffic light information and similar travel information relative to current traffic light information and current travel information by checking records of past driving operation in a storage unit. Then, the warning apparatus predicts a driving operation of a driver when the driver is warned for determining the warning contents based on the operation information in association with the similar traffic light information and the similar travel information.